(From BBV admin): Susan Pynchon is one of the truly brilliant researchers and voting rights advocates in America today. Black Box Voting has worked with Susan and her organization, the Florida Fair Elections Coalition, quite often since both our organizations were founded in 2004. Pynchon is recognizable to those who watched "Hacking Democracy" as "the woman who cries at the end." I cannot tell you how many people have written to tell me that they, too, cried. But she consistently picks herself up and comes back swinging.

Local election watchdog Susan Pynchon is one of four people being honored tonight by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Florida for leading the charge to reform state voting systems.

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"The fight for fair elections is one of the great civil rights struggles of this decade," said Pynchon, founder and executive director of the DeLand-based Florida Fair Elections Coalition.

Pynchon can be seen in HBO's documentary "Hacking Democracy" digging through the trash at the Volusia County elections office after the November 2004 presidential election finding what appear to be discarded poll tapes.

The ACLU Foundation of Florida's Nelson Poynter Civil Liberties Award is presented each year to an individual or group of individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of civil liberties.

Pynchon will share the award, being presented at a ceremony in St. Petersburg, with three other recipients: Kindra Muntz of the Sarasota Alliance for Fair Elections and Dan McCrea and Pamela Haengel of the Florida Voters Coalition.